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Jennifer Lawrence Responded to All Those Weird Hand-Washing Questions

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When people constantly ask Jennifer Lawrence weird, invasive questions about whether or not she washes her hands after going to the bathroom, Jennifer Lawrence will respond in the most 2015 way possible: By producing a self-deprecating 16-second sketch and posting it to Facebook.

After she made a joke to MTV about not washing her hands in order to gross out her Hunger Games co-stars Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson, journalists wouldn't stop asking her whether it was actually true. Now, more than a month later, Jennifer Lawrence is squashing the rumor once and for all, via a sketch whose screenplay goes like this:

JEN: "That's a weird toilet."

VOICE: "Jen, that's not a toilet, it's a bidet!?"

JEN: "It's not a toilet? Well, then I don't have to wash my hands."

I hate talking to the Internet but I can't get asked another question about my hygiene on this press tour. I told MTV I...

Posted by Jennifer Lawrence on Monday, November 9, 2015

The mystery remains: Did she actually pee in the bidet? Perhaps that'll be the next weird question journalists won't stop asking.